Working with local food banks from San Diego to Seattle, Foster Farms will deliver enough turkey to help make a Thanksgiving dinner possible for more than 100,000 people as part of its West Coast Thanksgiving turkey donation program.

The Kresge Foundation awarded $1.5 million in grants to five organizations to better integrate health and human service systems. The grantees include Alameda County Public Health Department (California), Arlington County Health and Human Services Department (Virginia), Hennepin County (Minnesota), Montgomery County Health and Human Services Department, (Maryland), and Solano County Health and Social Services Department (California).

The Gathering Place named Adam Ross as the organization’s new chief development officer. Additionally, five new members joined the board of directors, including Kendall Kash, Katie Kohn, Kate Lincoln, Craig Lindsley, and Harvey Sass.

Jazz musician Rick Braun raised over $90,000 for Meristem, a school for young adults on the autism spectrum.

Charles Dickerson III, Jerrold Eberhardt, Mary Louise Gorno, Jennifer Koh, Isaac Thompson, and Sheila Williams have joined the League of American Orchestras‘ board of directors. Each will serve three-year terms.

Boys & Girls Clubs of America named Edgar Villanueva as Native Services Ambassador. With this role, Villanueva will serve as a spokesperson for the more than 110,000 Native youth at 200 Boys & Girls Clubs on Native lands.

News about opportunities, initiatives

GreaterSpace partnered with Servcorp to launch a co-working environment that offers shared services for nonprofits. The bundle includes affordable “rent packages, nonprofits can utilize fundraising, accounting, public relations, event planning, marketing and other services typically out of reach.”

Good360 launched their Regional Operating Centers, a new model for in-kind donation distribution that will “bolster Good360’s nonprofit network capacity to receive product donations in large and frequent volumes and disseminate them based on need.”

Tickets are now on sale for the Light of Day Foundation‘s Winterfest 2020: The 20th Anniversary, a festival fundraiser battle against Parkinson’s, ALS, and PSP. The 10-day festival will reach five cities in three states beginning Friday, January 10th 2020. Click here for more information about the festival and tour.

Giving USA released their new report, Leaving aLegacy: A New Look at Planned Giving Donors. Click here to purchase the report.

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